As a member of the United Nations Emergency Telecoms Cluster, TSF met in Tunisia with teams from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in charge of the coordination of operations in Libya.

Following this meeting, TSF crossed the border between Tunisia and Libya, at the Dehibat border post in the south of Tunisia. TSF’s objective is:

to install fixed and mobile connections at Nalut and Jadu, to facilitate the communication of the hospitals in these two towns

TSF has been deployed on the border between
Tunisia and Libya since February 24th, at the Ras Jedir border post and
in the transit camp of Choucha.

Since February 25th TSF has been conducting
humanitarian calling operations at the entrance to the transit camp in
collaboration with the Tunisian Red Crescent and the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In Libya, the repression escalates following
the revolt movements of the population.

Considering the recent events and the
thousands of refugees fleeing Libya, a TSF team left the international
headquarters on 23 February to Tunisia and reached the Libyan border today
to support the refugees.

Tunisians flee the country in hundreds,
followed by several refugees from Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Eritrea, Somalia,
Chad and the Palestinian territories, and by the first Libyan civilians.
Much of the foreign nationals have already left the country.